Vernonia fasciculata (Common Ironweed)

Vernonia fasciculata (Common Ironweed) is a tall native perennial that has distinctive intensely deep purple flowers.  It can be a taller plant of the prairie, but if inter-planted among other tall plants it can provide a nice pop in mid-late summer.

• Sun Exposure Prairie/Savanna
• Soil Conditions Wet-Mesic- Mesic
• Height 6'-8'
• Flower Color Purple
• Flower Time July, August, September

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